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Technical Background

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In order to fully understand the main concepts and problems in Indian agricultural electric energy supply, some technical background knowledge is required. This chapter, written for readers without an engineering background, describes the concepts of generation, transmission and distribution and explains how agricultural pumpsets operate. Further, the concept of a power factor and the working of capacitors are also explained.

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    This chapter draws on the following, freely available, sources: Pacific Gas and Electric Company (1997), Beck and Martinot (2004), Bureau of Energy Efficiency (2005), von Meier (2006), Molburg et al. (2007), Michael (2008), Bureau of Energy Efficiency (2010), Bhatia (2012).

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    All figures presented in this chapter are taken from Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (2014).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute for Ecological Economy Research, Berlin, Germany

    Julian Sagebiel

  2. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

    Christian Kimmich

  3. Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Malte Müller & Markus Hanisch

  4. cBalance Pvt. Ltd., Pune, Maharashtra, India

    Vivek Gilani

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Sagebiel, J., Kimmich, C., Müller, M., Hanisch, M., Gilani, V. (2016). Technical Background. In: Enhancing Energy Efficiency in Irrigation. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22515-9_4

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